This wide-ranging collection of articles, first published in 1981, documents the development of the intellectual and political aspects of the concept of the Asiatic Mode of Production - a concept central to the Western understanding of non-capitalist societies.

This wide-ranging collection of articles, first published in 1981, documents the development of the intellectual and political aspects of the concept of the Asiatic Mode of Production - a concept central to the Western understanding of non-capitalist societies.